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// The start of the journey is a rough one 
// Story: Musicnotes story 
// by Musicnotes 
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"Today's the day." Musicnotes said as she got out of bed. It was the day Musicnotes could finally leave the farm and begin her quest for the truth. She had spent months planing this day. She found out the mines were known for where what were described as monsters that hung out but she wasn't afraid. She planned on taking the long way there just in case. She would go north then go through the forsaken forest to get to the mines. It was early dawn when she woke up and she raced down stairs to say her goodbyes. When she entered the kitchen she saw Mr. and Mrs. Veggie, and a few of her friends. "Hey everypony I guess your here to see me off." "Of course we are Musicnotes." said The two neighbors who are going to take care of her  bunnies because Mr. and Mrs. Veggie couldn't and she can't bring them since they are too old to come. Musicnotes smiled. "Thanks everypony I'm going to miss you all." Mr. Veggie handed over a light blue saddle bag. When Musicnotes looked inside she saw a matching notebook. "Thank you." she said when she finished looking at it. Mrs. Veggie smiled. "Its so you can write anything you find down." Musicnotes gave each of them a hug. She had a tear in her eye. "I am really going to miss you both, you loved and raised me since you found me, I don't know how I can ever repay you both." They smiled back. Mr. Veggie spoke up. "You grown up so much. I still remember the times when you were found you would fly around or teleport on the roof." Mrs.Veggie brought out a box and put it in her saddle bag. "This is some food that should last you a while.Oh and there should be some bits in the front pocket just in case." Musicnotes smiled. She grabbed the last thing she would think she might need. She grabbed the old purple book she got from the library what seemed like forever ago. "I'm heading to some mines first." Musicnotes flew out as they said their last goodbyes.

After what seemed like a few hours of flying Musicnotes looked up at the sky and saw what appeared to be a storm coming. "Really a storm, why does it always seem like when storms happen in my life things happen." Music figured it would be safer to walk the rest of the way to the mine she believed she had to go to. She landed in the forsaken  forest  it had millions of tall trees. The trees were so tall that it seemed that it would take forever to fly to the top. Musicnotes had no clue if she was going the right way, she was just following her heart and letting it guide her whatever way. She heard the sound of thunder. She jumped. "Ok let me try and teleport away from this." Musicnotes focused on the spell and her horned glowed but nothing happened. "Darn I never seem to be able to use it when I need it." She looked up and it started pouring. She started to run for shelter. As she was running she heard more thunder and started to saw lightning. The lightning hit several trees around her and they started to fall. "Ok I got to try again." She tried a few more times, almost getting it once but only teleporting her a foot head. She figured she might try to fly and hope she would get high enough to avoid everything. She flapped her wings and started to fly.

The lightning continued to strike the tall trees causing more and more to fall around. "Come on Musicnotes just a little more." She tried to fly faster but the rain and a strong wind that appeared kept causing her mess up on her flying. Then there was another lightning bolt that struck the tree in front of her causing it to fall on her. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" Music screamed. The tree crushed her wing as she landed to the ground and hit her head causing her to black out. In another part of the forest about a mile or so from her location a pony heard her scream and decided to go investigate. "A pony in this weather is a very bad thing. I better hurry in this weather I can still hear that thunderstorm ring." It only took the pony a few minutes to find Musicnotes. He was able to move the tree and take her back to his shack.

The shack was on tree with roots coming out of the ground and there were bottles hanging from the branches. There were masks all over. They all looked different and creepy. The shack was close by the graveyard of the forgotten which was in the opposite direction of where Musicnotes needed to go.  He put her in a spare room with a bed and wrapped up her head and wing with bandages. He looked at her as she laid in the pony. "I wonder why you  have come this far. I would like to know when you wake who ever you are." He left the room letting her rest.   By the time Musicnotes woke up she found herself with a bandage on her wing and one on her forehead. "Ow where am I?" she asked. She put her hoof to her head. She had a major head ache. The door on the other side of the room opened up. A older looking stallion came out and when Musicnotes got a closer look she realized he was a zebra except he was mostly  light grey with dark black stripes. His mane was like how you would expect a zebras mane to look like, it was black and white. He went up to the bed she was in. "Oh good you are up and awake. I brought some medicine that I know how to make."